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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

Then I will describe various types of security products that can be used for web application security including some innovations that Dynatrace has recently introduced. Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. WAF appliances have seen little innovation during the past four years.”.

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What I Read in 2015

Tim Kadlec

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.